Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin

The Roots of Romanticism at last makes available in printed form Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated lecture series, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965. Combining the freshness and immediacy of the spoken word with Berlin's inimitable eloquence and wit, the lectures are the record of a bravura intellectual performance - of one of the century's most influential philosophers dissecting and assessing a movement that changed the course of history.